Theme Essential Question: How do characters, real and fictional, use words and actions to demonstrate perseverance?
Essential Questions:
How does establishing and maintaining a formal style help a reading navigate text?
How does providing a concluding statement help a reader make sense of a piece of writing?
How does providing a relevant conclusion support the body of a piece of writing?
How does a writer select purposeful language to convey a specific idea?
Standards:
W.7.1.a Text Types and Purposes: Introduce claim(s), acknowledge alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically.
W.7.1.b Text Types and Purposes: Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant evidence, using accurate, credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text.
W.7.1.c Text Types and Purposes: Use words, phrases, and clauses to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among claim(s), reasons, and evidence.
W.7.1.d Text Types and Purposes: Establish and maintain a formal style.
W.7.1.e Text Types and Purposes: Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument presented.
W.7.7 Research to Build Present Knowledge: Conduct short research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions for further research and investigation.
W.7.9 Research to Build and Present Knowledge: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
W.7.9.a Research to Build and Present Knowledge: Apply grade 7 Reading standards to literature (e.g., “Compare and contrast a fictional portrayal of a time, place, or character and a historical account of the same period as a means of understanding how authors of fiction use or alter history”).W.7.1.c Text Types and Purposes: Use words, phrases, and clauses to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among claim(s), reasons, and evidence.
W.9.b Research to Build and Present Knowledge: Apply grade 7 Reading standards to literary nonfiction (e.g. “Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient to support the claims”)
SL.7.2 Comprehension and Collaboration: Analyze the main ideas and supportingdetails presented in diverse media and formats (e.g. visually quantitatively, orally) and explain how the ideas clarify a topic, text, or issue under study.
SL.7.5 Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas: Include multimedia components and visual displays in presentations to clarify claims and findings and emphasize salient points.
Ongoing Standards:
R.L.7.10 Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
R.L.7.1 Key Ideas and Details: Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
R.I.7.1 Key Ideas and Details: Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
R.I.7.10 Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary non-fiction in the grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
W.7.9 Research to Build and Present Knowledge: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
W.7.10 Range of Writing: Write routinely over extended time frames (times for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
SL.7.1 Comprehension and Collaboration: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 7 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
SL.7.1.a Comprehension and Collaboration: Come to discussions prepared, having read or researched material under study; explicitly draw on that preparation by referring to evidence on the topic, text, or issue to probe and reflect on ideas under discussion.
SL.7.1.b Comprehension and Collaboration: Follow rules for collegial discussions, track progress toward specific goals and deadlines, and define individual roles as needed.
SL.7.1.c Comprehension and Collaboration: Pose questions that elicit elaboration and respond to others’ questions and comments with relevant observations and ideas that bring the discussion back on topic as needed.
SL.7.1d Comprehension and Collaboration: Acknowledge new information expressed by others and, when warranted, modify your own views.
L.7.2 Conventions of Standard English: Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
L.7.3 Knowledge of Language: Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
L.7.4 Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 7 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
L.7.4.a Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence or paragraph; word’s position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word of phrase.
L.7.4.c Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: Consult general and specialized reference materials (e.g., dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital prints to find the pronunciation of a word or determine or clarify its precise meaning or its part growth.
L.7.6 Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension.
Objectives: The Learner Will
TLW establish and maintain a formal writing style for a persuasive/argumentative piece of writing/presentation.
TLW provide a concluding statement that supports the argument presented.
TLW revise and finalize a piece of writing/presentation for publication.
Assessment Product (Research started in Week 4; Publication Week 6):
Student will produce a polished final draft of their writing/presentation for publication.
Key Questions (match Standard)
Why must a writer establish and maintain a formal style?
Why must a writer provide a relevant concluding statement?
Why must the writer write the conclusion to support the body of a piece of writing/ presentation?
Why does a writer select purposeful language to convey a specific idea?
Observable Student Behaviors (Performance):
Students will establish and maintain a formal style throughout their writing.
Students will provide a relevant concluding statement.
Students will write a conclusion that supports statements written throughout the body of the paper/presentation.
Students will select purposeful vocabulary/phrases that convey a specific idea.
Theme Essential Question: How do characters, real and fictional, use words and actions to demonstrate perseverance?
Essential Questions:
Standards:
Ongoing Standards:
- R.L.7.10 Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
- R.L.7.1 Key Ideas and Details: Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
- R.I.7.1 Key Ideas and Details: Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
- R.I.7.10 Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary non-fiction in the grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
- W.7.9 Research to Build and Present Knowledge: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
- W.7.10 Range of Writing: Write routinely over extended time frames (times for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
- SL.7.1 Comprehension and Collaboration: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 7 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
- SL.7.1.a Comprehension and Collaboration: Come to discussions prepared, having read or researched material under study; explicitly draw on that preparation by referring to evidence on the topic, text, or issue to probe and reflect on ideas under discussion.
- SL.7.1.b Comprehension and Collaboration: Follow rules for collegial discussions, track progress toward specific goals and deadlines, and define individual roles as needed.
- SL.7.1.c Comprehension and Collaboration: Pose questions that elicit elaboration and respond to others’ questions and comments with relevant observations and ideas that bring the discussion back on topic as needed.
- SL.7.1d Comprehension and Collaboration: Acknowledge new information expressed by others and, when warranted, modify your own views.
- L.7.2 Conventions of Standard English: Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
- L.7.3 Knowledge of Language: Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
- L.7.4 Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 7 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
- L.7.4.a Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence or paragraph; word’s position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word of phrase.
- L.7.4.c Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: Consult general and specialized reference materials (e.g., dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital prints to find the pronunciation of a word or determine or clarify its precise meaning or its part growth.
- L.7.6 Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension.
Objectives: The Learner WillAssessment
Product (Research started in Week 4; Publication Week 6):
Key Questions (match Standard)
Observable Student Behaviors (Performance):
Vocabulary
Maintain
Conclusion
Support
Purposeful vocabulary
Convey
Relevant
Formal style
Writing styles
Suggested Activities (see Legend to highlight MCO and [HYS])
Homework:
Terminology for Teachers:
MLA writing format
APA writing format
Ethnicity/Culture | Immigration/Migration | Intercultural Competence | Socialization | Racism/Discrimination
[High Yield Strategies]
Similarities/Differences | Summarizing/Notetaking | Reinforcing/Recognition | Homework/Practice |
Non-Linguistic representation | Cooperative Learning | Objectives/Feedback |
Generating-Testing Hypothesis | Cues, Questions, Organizers
Resources
Professional Texts:
Literary Texts
Informational Texts:
Art, Music, and Media
Manipulatives
Games
Videos
- www.DiscoveryEducation.com
- http://my.hrw.com/tabnav/controller.jsp?isbn=9780547616155
- Jackson’s Plan:
http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=1D3C5570-05F9-4F2B-8B39-F7CC6E469437&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US- Holocaust: Teenage Experience
http://player.discoveryeducation.com/?blnPreviewOnly=1&guidAssetId=0597503a-0bf8-423f-9c89-ef340274469a- "Life Worth Living: One Man's Story"
http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=8658EE7A-16DB-4A10-B79D-22464FEFA3E0Sight Words
SMART Board Lessons, Promethean Lessons
Other Activities, etc.
Language
Arts
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
7 Matrix
Accelerated 7
Matrix
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Home K-2
Home 3-6
Home 6-8
Unit 1
Unit 2
Unit 3
Unit 4
Unit 5
Unit 6